Literature and the Stars

full name / name of organization:

Culture and Cosmos: a journal of the history of astrology and cultural astronomy

contact email:

editors@cultureandcosmos.org

We are inviting submissions for Vol. 17 no 1 (Spring/Summer 2013) on Literature and the Stars. Papers may focus on any time period or culture, and should deal either with representations of astronomy or astrology in fiction, or studies of astronomical or astrological texts as literature. Contributions may focus on western or non-western culture, and on the ancient, medieval or modern worlds.

Papers should be submitted by NOVEMBER 15, 2012. They should typically not exceed 8000 words length and should be submitted to editors@cultureandcosmos.org. Shorter submissions are welcome.

Contributors should follow the style guide

Please include an abstract of c. 100-200 words.

All submissions will peer-reviewed for originality, timeliness, relevance, and readability. Authors will be notified as soon as possible of the acceptability of their submissions.

As from Vol. 17 no 1 Culture and Cosmos will be published open-access, on-line, in the interests of open scholarship. Hard copy will be available via print-on-demand.

cfp categories:

african-american

american

childrens_literature

classical_studies

cultural_studies_and_historical_approaches

ecocriticism_and_environmental_studies

eighteenth_century

film_and_television

gender_studies_and_sexuality

general_announcements

humanities_computing_and_the_internet

interdisciplinary

journals_and_collections_of_essays

medieval

modernist studies

poetry

popular_culture

postcolonial

professional_topics

religion

renaissance

rhetoric_and_composition

romantic

science_and_culture

theatre

theory

travel_writing

twentieth_century_and_beyond

victorian

By web submission at 10/04/2012 - 19:13

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